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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329089
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What Works? Interventions Aimed At Reducing Student Dropout in Higher Education
Ibsen, Kristoffer; Rosholm, Michael - 2024
High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533955
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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
Dur, Robert; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022
A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351725
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2015
early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531658
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A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
Krekel, Christian; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fancourt, Daisy; … - 2021
local communities by means of intervention. Can we teach people to live happier lives, cost-effectively and at scale? We … conducted a randomised controlled trial of a scalable social-psychological intervention rooted in self-determination theory and … limitations and implications for intervention design, as well as implications for the use of wellbeing as an outcome for public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597593
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960126
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228306
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Health and civil war in rural Burundi
Bundervoet, Tom; Verwimp, Philip; Akresh, Richard - 2007
We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing across provinces and the exposure of children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268249
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Civil wars beyond their borders: the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees
Baez, Javier E. - 2008
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268705
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Cultures, clashes and peace
Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009
Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269143